Webdesign plugins

Modules can define plugins to extend site profiles

To register a plugin, extend your mmoduledefinitionfile:

  <publisher>
    <webdesignplugin name="myplugin" namespace="http://www.example.net/mymodule" objectname="lib/plugin.whlib#myplugin" />
  </publisher>

All plugins should derive from WebDesignPluginBase and override ParseConfigurationNode to receive information from the site profile:

PUBLIC STATIC OBJECTTYPE MyPlugin EXTEND WebDesignPluginBase
<
  UPDATE PUBLIC RECORD FUNCTION ParseConfigurationNode(OBJECT siteprofile, OBJECT node)
  {
    RETURN [ myprop := ParseXSBoolean(node->GetAttribute("myprop"))
           , mytext := node->GetAttribute("mytext") ?? "fallback"
           ];
  }
>;

The siteprofile reader willl combine the parsed values for all apply nodes and update settings based on which attributes are actually set. For this reason, the cellnames returned by ParseCongigurationNode must match the attribute names used in the siteprofile (unless you also override ListConfigurationNodeAttributes to explain which attributes are overridden by each node)